Outrate Online Short Film Festival - NOW OPEN! Oscar
nominees, award-winning authors, playwrights and directors of gay
and lesbian film festivals comprise our judging panel this year and as well, we've around $1,000 in prizes up for grabs. If
your film if selected as a finalst, you'll receive personal feedback
from the judges and a chance at one of our great prizes!
Just
like last year, all films will screen on the site here until the
finalists are decided. The winning films will screen here on the site
for a
whole year.
Entries are now open and you can register your interest, find out more information and view all the judges, prizes and info here
INTERVIEW: DEVEN GREEN A
funny thing is a funny thing. It stands alone without any frame of
reference – if you have to explain the gist of comedy then it is best
you write your snatches of do-dads in your bedside “thinky” journal ... [more][See all interviews]
REVIEW: WRANGLER: ANATOMY OF AN ICON AIDS
is touched on, too—considering his sex life in the ‘70s and early ‘80s,
he’s very lucky to have dodged HIV, and admits in the film that had he
not committed to Whiting, he’d likely be dead. It’s not dwelled upon,
but one wonders if this could be one small part of what has bonded him
to her loyally for decades? ... [more][See all reviews]
FEATURE: GENET MEETS FASSBINDER: SEXUAL (DIS)ORIENTATIONS IN QUERELLE) When
the titular hero of Jean Genet's "Querelle de Brest" allows himself to
be fucked for the first time by Nono, the owner of the near-legendary
brothel La Feria, he intends it as a sort of self-punishment, a
metaphorical death that will allow him to be purged of guilt for his
recent murder of a friend and fellow opium smuggler ... [more][See all features]
CLIP OF THE WEEK: Inch By Inch From our review:
With the underwear thieves thus dispatched, Stefano relaxes in his
bedsit with a masturbation fantasy about three guys fucking at a beach.
Well-built Doug Jensen crawls across the sand in a strangely feminine,
cat-like way to interrupt towering Steve Wright’s sex with another guy,
and a three-way orgasm is intercut with shots of waves ... [more][See all reviews]
